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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mali	Greece	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	10,618	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	10,662	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	10,718	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	10,757	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	10,783	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	10,809	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	10,841	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	10,874	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	10,901	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	10,930	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	10,959	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	10,973	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	10,957	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	10,898	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	10,819	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	10,747	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	10,677	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	10,633	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	10,612	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	10,590	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	10,579	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	10,556	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	10,499	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	10,437	6,291

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Mali, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.